Pagan Community Notes: Beltaine 2025

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes: Many blessings to your community at this Turn of the Wheel! We celebrate Beltaine in the Northern Hemisphere and Samhain in the Southern Hemisphere. In other news, TWH launches new reporting sections, ADF elects a new Archdruid, author and Witch Mortellus shares a statement about a recent publishing experience, Star offers the Tarot reading of the week, and more upcoming events.

An Encounter with Pagan Metal

Except that what I heard then were no musical notes. These were sounds of the earth. Crackling; slowly rumbling; like a fissure opening up on the ocean floor; or a mountain growing, or a volcano awakening after millennia of stillness. The music had not even started that I was already captivated.